Cities worldwide are experimenting with new ways to tackle congestion and improve urban mobility along with resident health and safety. Many communities are testing novel, low cost interventions to change individual behavior, \u201cnudging\u201d their way to fewer and slower drivers, along with more and better cyclists and transit riders.<\/p>\n
While still in the early stages, these experiments are bearing fruit. As much as Americans love their cars, individual choices \u2013 spatial, modal and temporal \u2013 can be influenced by technology, policy or low cost design interventions, yielding smarter, safer and less congested cities.<\/p>\n
Transportation Nudges: Experiments in Improving Urban Mobility<\/i><\/strong>, the fourth City Leadership Summit hosted by the Initiative on Cities at Boston University, delved into these topics and more, bringing together transportation demand managers, urban planners, technologists, computer scientists, government officials, behavioral economists and community and business leaders to examine innovative ways cities can nudge their way to better mobility.
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